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Vandalism-proof switch, the design of a push-button, but the functionality of a switch!
These switches are available in black, and will soon be available in silver. The lighting of the switches is available in a ring and dot shape, the colours available are red, blue, white, green, yellow & orange. These switches are specially designed for 12V operation, an additional resistor is hence not needed. The pins can easily be connected by press-fitting or with blade terminal connectors. Of course the connection can also be achieved by soldering the cables on! The 19mm thread is ideal to allow mounting in e.g. the PC enclosure. A counter-nut fixates the switch in place. A gasket is also included to protect the electronics at the rear to allow installation outside, as the unit is splashproof.
This switch is extremely versatile, not only in the computer sector!
The technology and quality on these switches are unique in this price range! The moving piece sits flush in the casing. Nothing is sticking and every edge is cleanly finished. The lifespan of the mechanics is rated for at least 1.000.000 movements. A temperature range of -20°C to +70°C is also plenty for almost any application. Both AC and DC can be switched and of course the whole switch is rust-proof.
A definite highlight for any system and a must for every DIY enthusiast!
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Bumgarner's 50th win comes pretty quickly
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Haft-Baked Ideas, and follow him on Twitter at @sfgiantsbeat.
LOS ANGELES -- Madison Bumgarner became the fourth-youngest pitcher in Giants franchise history to reach the 50-win plateau, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Bumgarner reached the milestone Saturday by striking out 10 in 6 1/3 innings and earning the decision in the Giants' 7-2 triumph over the Dodgers. He was 24 years and 247 days old.
That's wasn't quite as young as Mike McCormick was (22 years, 303 days) in 1961 when he became the quickest Giant to record 50 victories. Others between McCormick and Bumgarner were Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson (22 years, 331 days in 1903), Doc Crandall (23 years, 363 days in 1912) and Hal Schumacher (24 years, 156 days in 1935).
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DETROIT (WWJ) — Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has designated 1,243 Michigan physician practices as patient-centered medical homes for 2013.
The 1,243 practices, containing more than 3,770 physicians, make this the country's largest PCMH effort of its kind for the fifth consecutive year.
Through patient-centered medical homes, primary care physicians lead care teams that work with patients to keep them healthy and monitor their care on an ongoing basis. PCMH teams coordinate patients' health care across all locations for care, to help patients' meet their personal health goals.
"The Michigan Blues' medical home model is working," said Daniel J. Loepp, BCBSM president & CEO. "Verified data show improved patient outcomes and millions of dollars in cost savings. Additionally, physicians are making determined efforts to earn designations. Their overwhelming support is the biggest indication that this program is benefitting patients statewide."
A recent analysis shows that the program saved approximately $155 million over its first three years, because of improved quality of care and preventive care that helped patients avoid emergency room visits and hospital stays.
"In Blue Cross' program, each patient has his or her own health care team. The team works together, in partnership with the patient, to focus on each patient's personal goals and needs," said David Share, M.D., BCBSM senior vice president, value partnerships. "Physicians and their care teams are improving patient outcomes, which leads to lower costs because there is less need for testing and hospital care."
PCMH practices offer their patients services that may not be offered at non-designated practices, such as 24-hour access to the care team. PCMH practices coordinate specialist and other care, such as nutrition counseling, home care or links to community services. They also teach patients how to manage conditions such as asthma and diabetes.
More than 1.1 million Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan members, and close to 2 million patients across the state, have access to a Blues' PCMH-designated practice.
Data from 2013 show that the Michigan Blues' PCMH practices have lower rates of patients being hospitalized and visiting the emergency room than nondesignated practices. In fact, emergency department visits are particularly lower in cases where appropriate care in a doctor's office or clinic is preventing a medical condition from worsening (referred to as primary-care sensitive).
"Now that we're in our fifth year of this program, we're seeing measurable improvement in patient outcomes, and doctors are telling us that their practices are more fulfilling, effective and efficient," Share said. "In the last two years, specialist physicians have begun collaborating with primary care physicians and changing their care processes guided by the PCMH model, so that patients' care is truly managed across the spectrum."
The number of physicians earning PCMH designation from BCBSM has tripled since BCBSM first launched the program in 2009, when 1,200 physicians were designated. Designation lasts for one year, July through June. Physician practices work to earn designation each year.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan bases half of the designation score on a practice's PCMH capabilities — such as 24-hour access for patients and active care management — and half of the designation score on care quality and utilization measurements, such as number of emergency room visits among patients.
To search online for a Blue Cross PCMH-designated physician, go to bcbsm.com and click on Find a Doctor on the left side of the page.
The PCMH initiative is part of Value Partnerships, a collection of collaborative initiatives among physicians, hospitals and the Michigan Blues, all aimed at improving quality in medical care.


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Apple will be reporting its third-quarter fiscal year 2012 earnings call later today, and many are speculating that part of that call will be the announcement of the OS X Mountain Lion release date. In fact, last year Lion's release date was announced during the earnings call, and it debuted the following day. Apple has promised that Mountain Lion would be released this month, and we've got a week left. If we had to bet, we'll see Apple's next major operating system launch tomorrow. Mountain Lion will be available on the Mac App Store for $19.99, and the Golden Master was released to developers recently.
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It was a statement I frankly had to read a few times before I realized with some amazement that the good bishop had gotten it so stunningly wrong that she actually got it right! Let's take a look:
"As the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Rhode Island, I firmly support the traditional definition of marriage as the union between one male and one female. I believe that Holy Matrimony is a sacred religious rite, whose definition should not be re-interpreted by legislation or civil courts."OK. This is the part she gets right. Which is NOT to say I agree with her about the "traditional definition of marriage." It IS to say that I also believe that "Holy Matrimony is a sacred religious rite, whose definition should not be re-interpreted by legislation or civil courts."
Not only shouldn't the legislature or courts be messing with sacred religious rites ... THEY CAN'T. See also: The First Amendment -- which guarantees freedom of religion and means we have the freedom within our various and sundry religious traditions to interpret how we define the sacred religious rite we call Holy Matrimony.
Roman Catholic priests have the freedom to refuse to marry previously divorced couples and Orthodox Rabbis have the freedom to refuse to preside at inter-faith weddings. And Bishop Wolf is as entitled to her belief that Holy Matrimony is only between "one male and one female" as I am to mine that the values that a couple bring to a marriage transcend the gender of the couple and that God blesses same and opposite sex marriages equally. How we sort that out together within our religious tradition is up to us to work out -- and in the Episcopal Church we are well and truly knee deep in the process working it out.
But (and it's a BIG "BUT" ...) ... none of that has ANYTHING to do with what the Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee is considering tomorrow.
What the Rhode Island Judiciary Committee is considering tomorrow is whether the equal protection of CIVIL MARRIAGE -- the contract between two people who pledge to love, honor and cherish each other til death do they part -- should be equally extended to both same and opposite sex couples.
Another way to put is: Holy Matrimony = Apple. Civil Marriage = Orange.
So Bishop Wolf gets it right: the state should not be messing with Holy Matrimony. What she gets wrong is that the church shouldn't be messing with Equal Protection.
And here's where she gets it REALLY wrong ... in the second part of her statement:
Legislators could honor the civil rights of all individuals by eliminating the term "marriage" and substituting the term "civil unions." Religious organizations could then make their own decisions as regards to the recognition or non-recognition of these "unions."On first glance, that seems like a kind of radically egalitarian solution that could have some appeal. Eliminate civil marriage altogether -- give everybody civil unions. Except (and it's a BIG "EXCEPT") ... civil unions do not guarantee the more than 1,138 federal rights, protections and responsibilities automatically granted to married heterosexual couples.
So Bishop Wolf -- in a misguided attempt to protect the already-protected-by-the-First Amendment-right to define Holy Matrimony as "the union between one male and one female" -- would take away from all Rhode Island families the protections given by federal marriage rights. Like the right to make decisions in a medical emergency. Like Social security benefits, income and estate tax benefits and disability benefits. Like inheritance rights, parenting rights and ... well, it's a very long list.
Throwing out all those rights, protections and responsibilities in order to "protect" marriage from gay and lesbian couples who both want and deserve equal protection for the life they are building together isn't protecting marriage. It's throwing out the baby out with the bathwater. The people of Rhode Island deserve better. And the Bishop of Rhode Island should know better.


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The world depends on mariners. Mariners depend on SCI. And we depend on you.
Photos taken at Port Newark, NJ on October 30, 2013, featuring seafarers, Christmas at Sea gifts and SCI intern Ryan Bruns.
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Boulder County voters whose polling place is Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church on South Boulder Road can expect to walk past an anti-abortion display — including thousands of crosses representing aborted fetuses — when they go to cast their ballots Tuesday.
County election officials said the display does not appear to violate any rules for polling places, but they will allow voters assigned to Sacred Heart of Mary to vote elsewhere Tuesday — and the county will no longer use the church as a polling place in future elections.
"Our concern is that people are going to feel a sense of conflict with regard to voting at this church," said Molly Tayer, Boulder County's deputy clerk and election coordinator.
Tayer said a church representative initially told the clerk's office that the display, erected in October for Respect Life Month, would be taken down the first weekend in November. According to Tayer, that person called back on Friday to say that, "Father has elected to keep it up."
The Rev. Marcus Mallick is the priest at Sacred Heart of Mary. Church representatives on Monday referred questions to the Archdiocese of Denver, where a spokeswoman said the display is not meant to influence voters, but to continue a ministry that reaches out to women considering abortion and those who have undergone abortions in the past.
"These are 'Respect Life' signs to bring awareness to the issue," said Karna Swanson, the diocese's spokeswoman. "The decision to keep them up was based on the success of that ministry."
Swanson said she does not know how long the church — which made news in 2005 for hosting burial services for the cremated remains of aborted fetuses — will maintain the display. She also said that no one from the church spoke with the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder's Office between April, when the contract was signed to host the voting location, and late last week.
The display does not appear to violate any election rules against expressing political views at polling places, Boulder County's Tayer said. It is on the church's private property and is not explicitly political. It also lies outside the 100-foot buffer inside which no political signs or personal campaigning is allowed.
However, the Boulder County clerk's office has received three complaints about the display being located outside a polling center.
Tayer said the clerk's office will not use the church as a polling place during future elections, and voters who object to the display will be allowed to vote instead at voter service centers, including at the main location at the clerk's office, 1750 33rd St..
Tayer said she is not aware of ever having a similar issue with Sacred Heart of Mary, which has served as a polling place in the past, or with any other church.
Sacred Heart was advertised as a polling place starting 90 days before the election. While state law does allow for polling places to be changed in an emergency, Tayer said the situation doesn't rise to that level.
A complete list of alternative voter service centers is available online at bouldercountyvotes.org or by calling 303-413-7740.
Swanson, of the Archdiocese of Denver, said the church has no problem with the clerk's office seeking out other polling places in the future.
"The clerks have every right to choose where polling places are at," she said.


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generasia began as a project between the founders of jpopstop.com and tokyograph.com. The reasoning was simple; throughout the net, there exists numerous sites all focused on a single person or aspect of Asian music culture. Since the creation of the web, we've all tolerated having to browse to one site for artist discussion, one for biographies, one for discographies, one for news, one for listening, etc. Then it hit; What if it didn't have to be like that? What if there was just one cohesive site offering news and info about the culture we love without having to register at multiple sites only offering a fraction of the overall experience? This is what generasia is here for; to bring the Asian experience to you.
One of the most important aspects about this project is bridging multiple sites together with multiple admins each focusing on what they do best. Just as you wouldn't expect your plumber to fix a faulty power outlet, you need people experienced in their field to give you the news and information you'd expect from a specialty site. With people who are "in the know" about news from Japan, the latest in fashion and beauty, along with delivering the music, videos, and images most sites would charge some arbitrary subscription for just to have access to a fraction of this content. Our information is free to use and free to enjoy as you see fit.
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Headington Hill (Bottom of Headington Hill footpath at the park entrance)
60 minutes
Warm up and then hill reps at your own pace up Headington Hill and back down through the park. This is an uncoached session and you will be running a 1 mile loop on public footpaths and in the public park. Be courteous to your fellow man!
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Long before the cases of Lance Armstrong, Barry Bonds and Marion Jones engendered public indifference about performance-enhancing drugs, steroids were a dirty little secret of the sports world. Suspicions were prevalent in Olympic circles, but rarely discussed above a whisper. That changed in 1988 when Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was busted for the anabolic steroid stanozolol days after winning the gold medal and setting a world record in the 100-meter dash at the Seoul Olympics. His spectacular rise to the top of his sport and his cataclysmic fall are chronicled in 9.79*, this week's entry in ESPN's Emmy-nominated documentary series 30 for 30 (Tuesdays, 8/7c).
The title of the film refers to the stunning world record Johnson set in Seoul, a mark that left his closest competitor, defending Olympic champion Carl Lewis, in another proverbial time zone. (Lewis' time of 9.92 became the new Olympic record following Johnson's disqualification.) Johnson, Lewis and the six other men who ran the race were all interviewed by director Daniel Gordon, providing a fascinating range of perspectives on the event itself and the culture of drug use in sports at the time. "The people coming to meets, they want to be entertained, they want to see fast times," Johnson laments in the film of his decision to start taking steroids. "They don't care how you get there."
Gordon pulls back the curtain on conspiracies that were part of a well-oiled machine that desperately tried to preserve the integrity of the sport, the Olympic equivalent of "don't ask, don't tell." In fact, of the eight finalists in the Seoul 100, only Calvin Smith of the United States and Brazil's Robson Da Silva did not at some point in their careers have a drug-related blemish on their record. Even nine-time Olympic gold medalist Lewis, traditionally considered a model sportsman, has his innocence questioned in the film. (Never more jarringly when he's shown in archival footage with orthodontic braces not long after we're told that human growth hormone causes the jaw to grow out and that "mature adult athletes wearing braces on their teeth became stigmatum of growth hormone use" in the '80s.)
"Athletes can see everything that's going on and they know more than the public will ever know," Smith says of the behind-the-scenes cover-ups that were prevalent prior to the Seoul Games. 9.79* now gives a pretty good look not only at how rampant steroid use has been, but also why many athletes chose the path.


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WFDF and BULA seek host organizers for the WFDF & BULA 2015 World Championships of Beach Ultimate
24 September 2013
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) and the Beach Ultimate Lovers Association (BULA) are seeking potential host organizers for the WFDF & BULA 2015 World Championships of Beach Ultimate (WCBU2015). Co-hosted by both WFDF and BULA, this tournament is the premier world championship for Beach Ultimate. The deadline for submitting completed bids for WCBU2015 is 30 November 2013. It is expected that the final bid selection will be announced no later than the first quarter of 2014.
Importantly, due to conflicts in the summer schedule in 2015, we are seeking bids for this weeklong event for times other than the months of July and August or the period from 25 September – 5 October 2015.
For information about this event or on the bidding process and for the bid guidelines, please contact Patrick van der Valk, WFDF Beach Ultimate Chair and BULA President (
The previous World Championships of Beach Ultimate, a week-long event held in August 2011 in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy, hosted 1,060 players on 72 teams from 29 countries and five continents. Previous WCBU events were held in 2007 in Maceio, Brazil and in 2004 in Figueira da Foz, Portugal.
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12 Innovative and Creative Ping-Pong Tables designs.
Ping Pong Tables by Laurent Perbos: These aren't one of those traditional ping pong tables; but some real interesting creations by Laurent Perbos.
Mirrored Ping Pong Table: The table, titled "Reflection" is an art piece by Rirkrit Tiravanija, and was on display at Nyehaus exhibition in NYC.
Ping Pond Table: This is the creation of G Orozco.
PingPongPlus: It's a digitally enhanced version of the classic ping-pong; it's an interactive ping-pong table developed by MIT in late 90's.
PING-PONG Dining Table: The PING-PONG Dining Table by designer Hunn Wai is a luxurious looking table suitable for both dining and playing.
Workstation Doubles As Ping Pong Table: Another creation of designer Hunn Wai, who created an unlikely pairing of a ping pong table and a workstation.
Floating Ping-Pong Table: Not such a great idea for those of us without a private swimmingpool.
TriPong Table: Ping pong for three; creation of Secil Boyd.
Modular Ping Pong Table: Modular Table Tennis System allows users to arrange the tables in any configuration that they want. It allows 1-12 or more players to play, and apart from this you can even retrofit a traditional table to accommodate your new paddle-happy lifestyle.
Ping Pong Door: Designed by T Franzel, it functions just like any ordinary door and when needed it turns into a ping-pong table.
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A Sandwich a Day: Braised Pork with Peanuts and Sour Mustard Greens at Taiwan Cafe, Boston
A different sandwich profiled every single day.
In this great country of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around the country. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
Momofuku might have made steamed pork buns cool (if not small and expensive), but there are still places where they fulfill their original goal: a cheap, delicious, workingman's lunch. I like to think of the Braised Pork With Peanuts and Sour Mustard Greens In Steamed Bun ($3.75) from Boston's Taiwan Cafe as something like a Chinese Reuben. It's got the same basic flavor profile.
Pork belly slow cooked in a sweet soy-based sauce is as rich, meaty, and meltingly tender as the best corned beef. Pickled mustard greens are sharp and sour with a wasabi-like heat and the pungent aroma of braised cabbage takes the place of the sauerkraut, while sweet crumbled fried peanuts and a sprinkle of sugar add the sweetness and fattiness of Thousand Island dressing. The bread is a fresh steamed and folded bing-style bun, yeasty and tender.
At $3.75, it's a far better option than any of the $11 sandwich joints in downtown (this is Boston—you can walk to Chinatown from downtown during your lunch break), and a good break from the other sub-$4 lunch options (those would be the bánh mì).
Taiwan Café
34 Oxford Street, Boston MA 02111 (map); 617-426-8181
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National teams have come calling for FIFA's next international fixture dates between Sept. 3 and 7, and MLS will be well represented – especially in CONCACAF.
Rafa Márquez will likely wear the captain's armband for Mexico as El Tri take on Ecuador at Chivas' new Estadio Omnilife on Sept. 4, then meet Colombia at Tigres UANL's Estadio Universitario three days later.
Canada coach Stephen Hart summoned five MLS players for his side's friendlies against Peru on Sept. 4 in Toronto and against Honduras on Sept. 7 in Montreal. Toronto FC's Dwayne De Rosario, Julian de Guzman and Nana Attakora; D.C. United's Dejan Jakovic; and Real Salt Lake's Will Johnson all will don the red kits.
Honduras, meanwhile, recalled World Cup veteran and Kansas City Wizards midfielder Roger Espinoza. Los Catrachos will face El Salvador at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on the 4th before heading North of the Border.
El Salvador, under interim manager José Luis Rugamas, will feature San Jose attacker Arturo Alvarez, Chivas USA midfielder Osael Romero and Chicago defender Deris Umanzor. Los Cuscatlecos will take on Chicago's Marco Pappa and neighbors Guatemala at Washington's RFK Stadium on Sept. 7.
Jamaica, meanwhile, will have six MLSers on their roster when the Reggae Boyz face Costa Rica in Kingston on Sept. 5 and then Peru two days later in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Manager Theodore Whitmore summoned 'keeper Donovan Ricketts (LA Galaxy), defender Shavar Thomas (Kansas City), midfielder Lovel Palmer (Houston), winger Dane Richards (New York) and strikers Ryan Johnson (San Jose) and Omar Cummings (Colorado).
The Ticos side Jamaica will face first also features a pair of MLS players called by interim Costa Rica coach Ronald González: striker Alvaro Saborio (Real Salt Lake) and defender Roy Miller (New York).
Over in Europe, New York Red Bulls sensation Joel Lindpere was called by Estonia for an important match as the Blue Shirts open Euro 2012 qualifying on Sept. 3 against Italy, then for a friendly against Uzbekistan four days later. According to the Red Bulls, Lindpere hasn't decided whether to accept the call-up – he declined Estonia's last summons earlier this month.
Montenegro, meanwhile, called D.C. United Designated Player Branko Boskovic for their Euro qualifying efforts, which begin Sept. 3 against Wales and then on the 7th against Bulgaria.
In South America, Venezuela called Columbus forward Emilio Renteria for their friendlies against Ecuador and Colombia.
In Africa, 2012 Cup of Nations qualifying also gets underway. Sierra Leone called Kansas City striker Kei Kamara for their match against Egypt in Cairo on Sept. 5, and Senegal called Red Bulls 'keeper Bouna Coundoul for their qualifier against Congo DR.


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From the sugar and butter content of some of my recent cooking, you'd never know that I'm a seldom-at-best baker/ maker of desserts. Yet there's something about winter and holiday time that brings out my inner Martha in the kitchen. Maybe it's that there's almost always a reason to take said desserts out of the house rather than have them hanging around tempting us… I get to experience the fun of baking something, try a little piece or two, and not have leftovers.
Although I didn't get to do a ton of baking during the holidays, the urge still lingered, so a couple weekends ago when we were invited to a friend's to watch the Lions/Saints
game slaughter, I decided that baking a tart was in order. I had just been to Eastern Market that morning, where I'd come across local black walnuts, already shelled, for $4 per half-pound bag. At the next table they were selling them whole, but knowing how difficult they are to shell, I decided $4 was a small price to pay for unstained hands and time saved (not to mention the fact that if I wanted to shell my own, I could forage them for free). I wanted to showcase the walnuts in a tart, so I did a riff on pecan pie, with maple syrup and golden syrup subbed in for corn syrup, and a healthy slug of Calvados for extra oomph.
Although the Lions let us down, at least we had good eats as a consolation: bacon sandwiches, carrot salad, some Romanian cured sausages, and bread pudding, not to mention good drinks and company. The tart was a success, with the funky, almost cheese-like flavor of the walnuts complimented by the maple and apple. To accentuate the Calvados, I made a Calvados-spiked whipped cream to top the tart; a dash of cinnamon on top of that would not be amiss. And although it may be a dessert more suited to autumn or Thanksgiving, your valentine (or a football buddy) just might appreciate it as well.
Black Walnut, Maple & Calvados tart (adapted from Bon Appetit)
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Notes: If you can't get your hands on any black walnuts, the tart will still be delicious with regular walnuts. If Calvados proves difficult to locate or too expensive, bourbon may be substituted.
for crust:
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into small (about 1 cm) dice
1 large egg
1 tablespoon milk
for filling:
½ cup golden syrup
½ cup maple syrup (grade B is fine)
½ cup sugar
3 large eggs
2 tablespoons (¼ stick) unsalted butter, melted
¼ cup calvados
1 ½ Tbs all purpose flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
¼ tsp salt
½ lb shelled black walnuts
for topping:
1 pint heavy whipping cream
1 Tbs maple syrup
2 Tbs calvados
Prepare crust:
Blend flour, sugar and salt in processor. Add butter and pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal. Whisk egg and milk in small bowl to blend, then add to processor. Blend until moist clumps form. Place dough onto a large sheet of plastic wrap. Gather corners of plastic wrap around dough to assist with forming dough into ball; flatten into disk. Wrap well and refrigerate 1 hour. (Dough can be prepared up to 2 days ahead. Keep refrigerated. Let dough soften slightly before rolling out.)
Prepare topping:
Combine all ingredients and beat in a stand mixer or with electric beaters until mixture has body and has approximately doubled in volume but is not stiff. Cover and refrigerate until needed.
Prepare filling:
Preheat oven to 350°F. Whisk syrup, sugar, eggs, butter, bourbon, flour, vanilla and salt in large bowl to blend.
Assemble tart:
Roll out dough on floured surface to 14-inch round. Transfer to 10 or 11-inch tart pan with removable bottom (9-inch glass pie dish can also be used). Press dough into pan and press around the top of the tart pan to cut off excess dough (if you have a lot of extra dough, save it for mini jam tarts or other free-form fruit tarts). Pour filling into prepared crust and sprinkle walnuts evenly on top. Bake until crust is golden and filling is set in center when pie is shaken slightly, about 55 minutes. Cool pie completely in pan on rack. To serve, remove tart from pan and transfer to a serving plate. Serve with maple calvados whipped cream and cinnamon, if desired.


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Thursday, January 24, 2008
My cheatin' hair
I cheated on my hairdresser. And I got caught.
It's not like we had a long-term relationship. I suppose you could argue that we had an "agreement" - but, really, it had never been stated explicitly. It just sort of evolved that way. I started seeing her casually, and then it was just easy to book a follow up appointment on my way out the door, and the next thing I knew we had an exclusive thing going.
But, honestly, I hadn't been seeing her that long. And in my defense, I was just coming out of a ten-year relationship with my former hairdresser. That, in itself, is a long story - my ex-hairdresser is a lovely woman who was with me through a lot of tough times. I care about her - I will always care about her - but things had just run their course, you know? It had become same old, same old in the haircut department and our schedules were such that we were having trouble finding time for each other. And I just needed a change - I needed something new and exciting - I needed some pampering. So when my colleagues started coming back to the office with fabulous new hairstyles... well, it didn't take much convincing to make me stray.
It was some time last summer that I first went to The Salon and met my most recent stylist, Rachel. We were set up on a blind match, and at first it felt like maybe there was something there, but I see now that I was just on the rebound - and perhaps, if I'm being totally honest, I was looking for a trophy stylist.
And Rachel certainly fit the bill. She's young - out of her teens, but not by much. And she's stunningly gorgeous, in that casual , natural way that looks effortless. And she's petite and graceful and lovely in spiky high heels that she stands in all day without getting blisters. The reality was, no matter how fabulous I felt walking in the door, after just a few minutes in Rachel's presence I felt like a barn animal. An old barn animal.
It wasn't her; it was me. Truly. She's just as sweet and as gracious as can be. But she's quiet - an introvert - and so am I. And we didn't have a lot to talk about to start with, so once we got through a few minutes of "how 'bout this weather," we spent most of the rest of the haircut in silence. Not especially awkward silence, but silence nonetheless. But it was fine. I didn't have a reason to end it. And the haircuts were good. So I stayed with Rachel for months.
Then, sometime in November, I got a call from The Salon telling me that Rachel had taken a very sudden leave of absence because of a family emergency and she wouldn't be able to do my December haircut. They fixed me up with someone else. Meg.
Meg is a dream come true.
First, she's experienced. She knows what she's doing. Where Rachel is measured and patient and careful, Meg is carefree and loose and creative. And I can relate to Meg: She's closer to my age. She's a mom of boys. She has pictures at her station of her newly-remodeled kitchen. We have the same gynecologist, for heaven's sake. It's like it was meant to be. Being with her was just so easy, you know?
But she's a responsible professional. She was fabulous, but she kept her distance. She gave great hair advice, but couched it in "I'm sure Rachel has mentioned that..." and "You could talk to Rachel about..." She made it clear that she knew I was taken. So, when I stopped at the desk before I left that appointment and had to book my follow-up, I booked it with Rachel. But I couldn't stop thinking about Meg. So three weeks later, I called back and switched.
I'm one of many to Rachel, I told myself. It's been so long, she probably doesn't even remember me. I was too old for her anyway. She'll be relieved.
I said it enough that I believed it, which made me able to show up for my appointment with Meg today - well, if not confidently, then at least not sheepishly.
Meg came out to meet me in the waiting room, and I thought I caught a look in her eye. But of what? Surprise? Confusion? Delight? I couldn't be sure, and it lasted just a second before she fell into that easy, breezy Meg banter that made me sigh and start dreaming of our future together. I was so caught up in it, in fact, that I was startled when, as I was laying backwards with my head dangling into the sink, I felt a tap on my shoulder, and I looked up to see the upside-down but smiling face of Rachel. Sweet, young, beautiful Rachel. She waved, and I stammered: "HEY! Welcome back! It's so great to see you!" My words said "I had no idea I could have scheduled with you!", but I know that my eyes betrayed me, as even upside-down they laid it out bluntly and without apology: "I'm just not that into you."
I tried to put it out of my mind. I tried to focus on the engaging chatter that Meg was so bravely offering up. I tried to remember that when Meg was done working her magic, I would look just a little less like Keith Urban. I tried. But, to my horror, I soon discovered that Rachel's station had moved since the last time I'd seen her, and now - yes, you know where this is going - now it is right in front of Meg's.
So I listened to Meg's delightful monologue as I watched Rachel - focused, hardworking, quiet Rachel - silently cut the hair of a woman who I think looked older than me, but who is probably five years my junior. And as I sat and listened and felt the magic of Meg's clip-swirl-clip, I was overcome with conflicting emotion. I was so happy to be where I was, and yet I felt terrible about feeling so happy. I can only equate it with the feeling one has at the senior prom when one sneaks away from one's prom date to go make out in the hallway with one's ex-boyfriend (er... not that I would do that... what kind of person would do that?)
And then there was the moment - after the final reveal (ta-da! fabulous hair!) and before I walked out the door - when Meg walked me to the reception area and said with the political neutrality of Switzerland, "Brianna can help you if you'd like to schedule another appointment."
And I did. Schedule, I mean. With Meg. But I feel just awful about it. And what's worse, I feel that I'm without options - that I've made myself a hair salon pariah. Stick with Meg and make her an accomplice to my betrayal, or return to Rachel despite the fact that we both know it would not be because I wanted to, but because I felt I had to.
I'm stuck. And angst-ridden.
But my hair? It's fabulous.
31 comments:
- Drama Mama said...
Does Meg do color?
- January 25, 2008 12:35 AM
A hairdresser that's quiet throughout the whole haircut? Sounds like paradise. I haven't had the luck of encountering one.
- January 25, 2008 3:34 AM
- kristen spina said...
Oh god, I walked this very same road last year. I switched within the salon--and to make matters worse for the poor stylist I was betraying, I took up with her boss. It was awkward, it was difficult. I started taking my son to my old stylist, as what?, a consolation prize.
In the end, I had to leave them both. I do worry, however, that I'm already too clingy with the new girl. I love her cuts, but the color? Well, so-so...and yet, how do I wiggle out of it? Yes, you can cut my hair, but no you cannot color it?
- January 25, 2008 7:38 AM
- Bea said...
Cheating on your stylist with someone in the same salon??? Ballsy. It's like dumping a girl and then asking out her sister.
- January 25, 2008 7:48 AM
- Unknown said...
Hee! Only women will understand this post.
- January 25, 2008 8:01 AM
- Club 166 said...
ROTFLOL! I laughed hilariously at this, because yes, only women will be able to relate to this post.
I mean, it's a haircut! You find a style you like, you keep it for twenty years. Have a midlife crisis, maybe you get another one. Maybe not.
- January 25, 2008 8:33 AM
- Eileen said...
So funny! I am sure we all have a similar affair to tell. I know I do. I am also the quiet one sitting in the chair and it has always been weird when I have had a quiet hairdresser. I too need a someone with Meg's carefree and creative personality. I have "my girl", Joanne, though she is no girl. She is actually ten or so years older than me, but still so stylish and up on the latest trends. I have been with her a good 15 years now. I have followed her to the many shops she has moved to. No, I am not letting this one get away!
- January 25, 2008 9:28 AM
- GFCF Mommy said...
I can't help you with your dilemma, but I loved reading this post! I needed a good laugh today, thank you!
- January 25, 2008 9:39 AM
No big deal Mom Nos! As you know I work in a salon Clients worry about this all the time Truth is we would rather you have a back- up stylist for emergencies maternity leaves ect. I'm sure Rachel wanted to let you know there was no hard feelings. We always offer a client someone else if the client REALLY can't wait. I can see how clients might feel awkward but REALLY we don't talk about you after you leave LOL XOXOXO -Noelle
- January 25, 2008 9:46 AM
- Marla said...
This was really cute. I could picture everything. I would stick with Meg though.
- January 25, 2008 9:58 AM
it's a no brainer: stick with meg.
does she travel?
- January 25, 2008 10:00 AM
- MOM-NOS said...
Noelle!!!! You have just made my day! You've made my WEEK! My secret hope was that someone would pop in and say exactly that. Knew I could count on you!
- January 25, 2008 11:26 AM
Well good for you!
I have no loyalty to hair dressers whatsoever. I'm an absolute harlot. The problem is that American's can't cut hair. They can do wonderful things with 'product' and a hair drier, but once you've left and washed it on your own, you look like you've stuck your fingers in the outlet.
I don't know what they teach at hair school out here but it's definitely not how to cut.
Happy to be controversial in this instance.
My neighbour, a delightful American, visited Europe and had her hair cut and styled, she was ecstatic and looked fabulous.
If you have found the only hair dresser that can cut hair then marry her and be damned.
- January 25, 2008 12:12 PM
I'm laughing my a$$ off! I recently had an affair on my hairdresser of 20 years. Just this week I had to crawl back begging forgiveness and for damage control. I promised never to stray again. And my hair is happier too.
- January 25, 2008 12:31 PM
- Niksmom said...
ROFLMAO! I think we must have all been there at some point! My hairdresser (stylist?) does FAB color and the most amazing cuts! The exact opposite of what maddy described...after Theresa blow-dries and styles myhair I feel like I ought to be presenting an award on some rinky-dink talent show. Byt when I get home and do it myself...the cut is so awesome that it even looks great when I *don't* style it!
Tough noogies for Rachel; stick with Meg!
- January 25, 2008 1:38 PM
- Angela said...
Too funny, the angst and the guilt. I say you deserve to just be able to sit back and enjoy the chatter and the great haircut.
- January 25, 2008 4:58 PM
Oh my gosh, you are SO NOT the only one who has been there. My stepsister is a hairdresser! And yes, I've cheated on her, too. LOL.
karen in ca
- January 25, 2008 6:00 PM
- Leightongirl said...
I'm with Maddy. Call me hair slut. What a wonderful post.
- January 25, 2008 6:03 PM
- Stimey said...
Hilarious. I love this post. I don't get my hair done often enough so whenever I go back to my stylist she always jokes that she thought I left her for someone else. I even recently followed her to a new salon, but I didn't love the last color she gave me so I'm thinking about cheating for real.
I love that this is a universal problem.
- January 25, 2008 6:18 PM
- Unknown said...
@stimey I took so long between hair cuts that my stylist went out for the proverbial pack of cigarettes. Now I'm out at the bars... hanging out online... My hair is long and ratty hoping I'll meet just the right stylist again. I'm thinking of switching to the other team... and just using my uncle. He's a barber. ;)
- January 25, 2008 8:14 PM
- Jordan said...
Totally hilarious! I just move often enough that I can switch with no one being the wiser! But now that we're going to stay here FOREVER...I can see how this would get tricky. Hmm..
Loved it.
Stick with Meg.
- January 25, 2008 8:48 PM
You know your hair did look really good yesterday! And I wanted to make a hair comment related to the birdnest, but nothing witty came to mind.
AND OMG you are SO not an old barn animal! (What a great line!!) AND you DON'T look anything like Keith Urban. Although both of you are very good looking!
Really a very charming and funny post mom-nos! Thank you. "...my eyes betrayed me, as even upside-down they laid it out bluntly and without apology: 'I'm just not that into you.' " Maybe they wouldn't have laid that out if they were right-side up? Who knows?
- January 25, 2008 9:47 PM
- Daisy said...
Oh, the guilt! Don't worry. Stylists know this can happen. They don't poach from each other's clients, either; the client ultimately makes the choice.
I wonder who does Dierks Bentley's hair? :)
- January 26, 2008 5:03 PM
- MOM-NOS said...
Funny you should ask, Daisy! You can see for yourself here!
- January 26, 2008 6:40 PM
- Joeymom said...
I have the fun of only getting my hair even looked at every few years. So I usually end up in the middle of my mom's hairdresser angst every few years...
- January 26, 2008 9:44 PM
- Carrie Wilson Link said...
I'm sending this to my hairdresser!
You describe this dilemma PERFECTLY. So relatable and hilarious!
Finding the right hairdresser is harder than finding the right husband. If you have? Do whatever it takes to keep her/him. For God's sake, it is your HAIR we're talking about!
- January 27, 2008 10:26 AM
- KAL said...
Terrific! It's so hard to find the right fit with someone - Meg is a keeper.
- January 27, 2008 4:54 PM
This piece is so clever in so many ways, I can't stand it. Mostly because I didn't write it.
I've spent years being bored stiff with inappropriate salon stylists and forced chatter--but getting out is better than staying home. Still, there must be 50 ways to leave your cutter.
I finally found a soulmate in Little Rock, AR. We had to break it off after five years because we moved back to Massachusetts. Long distance hair relationships never work.
Thanks for writing this funny piece. I shall send it to my nail biting friend in Maryland who cannot figure out how to stop seeing her manicurist.
- January 27, 2008 5:12 PM
Boy have I been here. I changed hair dressers in the last couple of years too. My original one was a relative of my ex. I continued to go to her for 2 years after the divorce but it felt wierd even though she backed me 100%. I had to break clean and I did but I'm still scared I will run into her in the store or on the street! Ack!
- January 27, 2008 11:30 PM
a) a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.
b) breaking up is hard to do.
c) at the end of the day - it's all about our hair really...isn't it?
:) mh
- January 29, 2008 6:25 PM
I've blogged about this same issue!
WHY do we (I include myself!) have such a sense of loyalty - that we'd put up with less-than-stellar results to avoid hurting people's feelings? Especially in what is essentially a business relationship where the results are what should count. e.g. Would you continue going to a bad mechanic because you felt sorry for him/her? Dang.
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On occasion (I'm guessing because I tend to have strong opinions in this area), people come to me with questions about bus etiquette. One I receive quite frequently and wish I had an answer to:
If there are a lot of people waiting at a stop, how do you decide the boarding order when the bus arrives? After all, not everyone has the same beliefs about who deserves deference, and (as drivers can attest) politeness isn't common among folks in a hurry to get where they're going. It makes sense to have some sort of neutral, bus-boarding system.
Unfortunately, there aren't any rules (or even generally accepted practices) for boarding buses in Seattle. As far as I can tell, it's every bus chick for herself. People stare straight ahead so they can pretend they don't see the other people (old folks included) who are also waiting to get on. When the passive-aggressive tactics don't work, they often resort to pushing . Those who say no to rudeness usually find themselves at the end of the line.
Some people have suggested that boarding order should be based on order of arrival–the first person to arrive at the stop is the first person to get on the bus. I appreciate the simplicity (and apparent fairness) of this system, but it's mighty hard to put into practice. People don't usually line up at bus stops the way they line up to get into a movie, and trying to keep track of who arrived when is too complicated.
The only place I've ever seen any kind of boarding system (loose though it may be) is at Montlake Freeway Station, where I wait in the mornings on my way to work. At Montlake, people stake out positions based on where they think the doors will be when the bus stops. This system favors those who get to the stop first, because they tend to choose the best positions, but it doesn't require people to remember, acknowledge, or defer to those who arrived before them.
Of course, choosing the best position is a challenge in itself. It's never clear exactly where the bus is going to stop, and even the slightest miscalculation can result in disaster. Then there's the door dilemma. If you choose a position near the front door, you might have to wait for other passengers to get off, and by the time you get on, all the open seats have been filled by people who waited by the back door. If you choose a position near the back door, you might get one of those drivers who inexplicably refuses to open it (it's pay as you leave) and find yourself behind all the front-door waiters.
The Montlake system also favors those who are willing (and able) to stand for the entire wait. Come to think of it, there is one constant for bus-awaiters across our fair city: Bench warmers (like yours truly, these days) almost always get on last.
Your turn. Seen any effective systems for crowded-stop boarding? If not, in your ideal world, how would it work?


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Teaching about the crises in Japan is the focus of this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. What relevance does the earthquake/ tsunami/ nuclear power catastrophe unfolding in Japan have to our students lives and our curriculum? We suspect that there are many "teachable moments" in the stories coming to us from Japan. But what are they? What are the lessons we might be learning alongside our students?
Many teachers contributed their thoughts and links in the chat (see below), and four guest joined us in the Skype conversation:
- To help us answer some of our questions, we invited Dave Mammen
to join us. Dave is an urban planner who has worked on disaster recovery efforts in Kobe, Japan and Aceh, Indonesia. He was a Visiting Professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) at Kyoto University and has directed many joint research projects with Japanese government agencies, universities and thinktanks. His research on ten years of recovery efforts in New York after 9/11 will be published later this year in Japanese and English by Fuji Technology Press. Recently Dave answered question on a CNN blog: Lessons from 9/11 will apply to helping earthquake victims in Japan – In the Arena - CNN.com Blogs http://t.co/030uvui.
- We were also joined by Martha, a senior where Paul Allison teaches,
East-West School of International Studies. Martha is not shy about her love of all things Japanese, an affection that only grew after she was able to visit Tokyo on a school trip in the summer of 2009. This was the podcast we did with Martha her Japanese teacher and another student upon their return in the summer of 2009: Teachers Teaching Teachers #161 - 07.29.09 - Summer Special: Submitting Your Own Docs Templates, Japan, and Digital Storytelling.
- Kim Cofino gave us her perspectives as well. Kim is currently the Technology and Learning Coach at Yokohama International School in Japan.
On her blog, Always Learning, Kim writes, "As in all my previous schools, I enjoy working with my colleagues to design authentic and engaging international projects incorporating social networking, blogs, wikis, and podcasts, and whatever comes next!" On the podcast, Kim talked about how difficult it was to write about this crisis, but she found a way. Kim was able to develop some of her thoughts in a post well worth checking out, Two Crises, Many Connections.
- Our fourth guest, Scott Lo also has a few wonderful places where you can continue to hear his perspectives. It's often a treat to check out Scott's Radio Tokyo, especially these days. Scott's plan "is to make the live recordings of these podcasts on Friday evenings on ds106 Radio." We were delighted to learn from Scott on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers as well!
We encourage you to share your teaching and learning ideas and your questions!
Click Read more to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.


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Rory McIlroy's Masters preparations suffered another blow as Tiger Woods showed flashes of his brilliant best in the Valspar Championship.
McIlroy's only birdie in an opening 74 came courtesy of holing a bunker shot on the seventh, his 16th hole of the day, while two bogeys and a clumsy double-bogey seven on the fifth left him three-over-par.
A roar for @McIlroyRory after this strong bunker 🐦. pic.twitter.com/L3weFfzu0k— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 9, 2018
That was seven shots off the lead held by Canada's Corey Conners and also four adrift of Woods, whose action-packed 70 featured a vintage - and highly risky - escape from trouble on the 16th.
Playing in his fourth PGA Tour event since undergoing spinal fusion surgery last April, Woods was just two shots off the pace after three birdies in four holes around the turn, before dropping shots on the 12th and 13th.
Another bogey looked on the cards after Woods pulled his tee shot on the 16th into the trees, but the 14-time major winner conjured a hooked approach to just short of the green despite slamming his club and left arm into the trunk of a tree on his follow-through.
Wait until you see the second angle in slow motion 👀#MustSeeMoments https://t.co/sX50na8uq7 pic.twitter.com/Zwl8S7HcWF— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 9, 2018
Woods appeared to be wincing in pain as he walked up the fairway but chipped close to save par and then produced the shot of the day on the par-three 17th to set up a tap-in birdie.
Woods told NBC: "It was really brutal out there. We as a group got fooled a lot today [by the wind]. It was tough.
"Today was a very good test and I felt like I really controlled the ball well for most of the day. I'm revved up. I love competing, I love mixing it up with these guys."
Asked about his second shot on the 16th, Woods added: "If I went over that sign in the water and I turned it, I'd be all right. The problem is I'd have to put a little speed into it and I was going to feel it.
"It didn't feel very good. I moved all the people and warned them in case that club breaks."
McIlroy began the season in superb form with a tie for third in Abu Dhabi and a runners-up finish in Dubai, but missed the cut on his first PGA Tour start at Pebble Beach and followed that with a tie for 20th in the Genesis Open and 59th in the Honda Classic.
McIlroy told a pre-tournament press conference at Innisbrook that he was "totally ready" for the Masters and felt he would have a good chance of the victory he needs at Augusta National to complete the career grand slam if the first major of the year got under way this week.
But his performance yesterday told a somewhat different story after starting from the 10th with 10 straight pars before failing to get up and down from a greenside bunker on the second.
Worse was to come on the fifth after a wayward drive into the trees forced McIlroy to pitch out sideways, a mistake he compounded by taking four to get down from just short of the green.
And although the birdie on the seventh repaired some of the damage, McIlroy dropped another shot on his final hole to card a fifth consecutive over-par round on the PGA for the first time since April 2010.
Scotland's Russell Knox was two shots off the lead after an opening 69, with Masters champion Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose, Luke Donald and Paul Casey all alongside Woods on one-under.


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Lead SIGINT Close Tactical Recon OperatorStart Date: 2007-02-01End Date: 2008-07-01
Led analysis efforts of SIGINT and other target reports to exploit palpable intelligence. Directed SIGINT communication, collection, and interception tools such as DRT, AN/PRD-13, and Airborne assets to support collaborative efforts in detaining High Value Targets. Acted as an ad hoc TTOC SIGINT Analyst coordinating analysis of target identification and communications patterns of life in order to exploit areas of operation against individuals and cells of insurgents/terrorists. Produced Targeting Packages for use in operations against insurgent cells and HVIs. Deployed with 1-28 Infantry; responsible for sorting raw signals intelligence for battalion level targeting at the S2 level. Specialized in network production of Mahdi Army and Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Produced after-action intelligence products such as communication exploitation, SSE, and targeting development at the tactical, corps, and echelon above corps levels. Analyzed raw traffic for force protection purposes to curb coalition losses in theater as a LLVI operator Developed reports for battalion level S2 operations which included C-IED nexus analysis, ant-terrorism cell identification, and contact chaining for targeting priorities. As a SIGINT Terminal Guidance (STG) Team Leader, Used tactical geo-location tools (STINGRAY, MAXIMUS, KINGFISH, ARTEMIS) with Tactical Human Intelligence teams, Scout-Recon, US Special Forces, NSA, and International Agencies to identify, locate, and detain HVTs at the tactical, corps, and echelon above corps levels. Aided in the development of standard operating procedures and conceptual operations for targeting of individuals to facilitate/bolster organic unit capabilities in capturing HVTs.
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The following is a column by Richard Socarides, president of Equality Matters.
As we prepare to launch EqualityMatters.org, Congress has just approved a bill repealing "don't ask, don't tell." This highly significant victory is an important milestone in our effort to secure full equality. No one said it better than our president, who deserves substantial credit for helping to bring about this day:
"It is time to close this chapter in our history," President Obama said in a statement. "It is time to recognize that sacrifice, valor and integrity are no more defined by sexual orientation than they are by race or gender, religion or creed."
The president is making a crucial connection here. This victory not only means that gays and lesbians will be allowed to serve with the dignity they deserve, but that America is beginning to recognize that our struggle is for civil rights. America is beginning to understand that gay rights are human rights.
In order to win the "don't ask" effort, we needed not only to convince our friends that now was the time to act, but we also had overcome the homophobia of the obstructionist Republican apparatus and conservative movement. Although eight Republicans joined the Senate vote to finally right this injustice, within an hour of the vote, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association said, "we are now stuck with sexual deviants serving openly in the U.S. military..."
"It's a tragic day for America," Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council, told the Associated Press. "But I don't think this will really affect the marriage issue very much. It's been rejected by voters in 31 states."
That's exactly were Mr. Sprigg is wrong.
Our culture is changing rapidly. Most Americans believe that gays and lesbians are entitled to the same rights and responsibilities as their fellow citizens, including now over 50 percent who believe in marriage equality.
We see other signs of progress too. For example, Ricky Martin, one of the biggest pop music stars of all time and Ken Mehlman, a former Republican Party chair turned Wall Street banker, felt comfortable enough to publicly proclaim their sexuality. Now, the gay high school kid on Fox's Glee has a great, show-stealing boyfriend. A New Jersey teenager's suicide gave new poignancy to a PSA campaign in which Americans from all walks of life, famous and not, spoke openly and candidly in record numbers about what it means to be gay and how "it gets better" - thanks to activist and writer Dan Savage.
In Washington, however, we have missed opportunities and have not so far been able to transform favorable public opinion into the powerful and undeniable force for change that it should have been. We believe that the moment for decisive action for full gay equality is here -- that this moment is a historic imperative. The goal of Equality Matters is to leverage our expertise in media and communications, and politics and policy, to support those who share that belief and help create an environment where policymakers, the courts, the media and the public at large understand that gay rights are human rights.
Despite the important victory we have just witnessed, make no mistake about it: we are still the only class of Americans for whom discrimination is codified into state and federal law. We have a lot of work to do.
Three basic commitments; and substantial progress.
President Obama made three core commitments to Americans on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. He would end "don't ask, don't tell"; fight for and sign into law legislation with basic employment anti-discrimination protections; and work hard to repeal the federal anti-gay marriage law (the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA). We have now achieved one out of three.
This milestone on "don't ask" repeal and the other progress we have made would not have been possible without true political leadership. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is perhaps the most significant example of someone who, as she has stepped on to the national stage, has embraced the cause of equal rights for gays and lesbians as one of her signature issues. Gavin Newsom, the new lieutenant governor of California and the first elected official there to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, is another.
There are others less well known, like Iowa State Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, who when urged to allow legislative action on reversing Iowa's court-imposed marriage equality rule, recently said: "The easy political thing for me to do years ago would have been to say, 'Oh, let's let this thing go. It's just too political and too messy.'" But, he added, "What's ugly is giving up what you believe in - that everybody has the same rights. Giving up on that? That's ugly."
And we have witnessed profound profiles in courage and conviction in the "don't ask, don't tell" debate. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff made a passionate case for open military service. Gen. John Shalikashvili and Former NATO commander Gen. Wesley Clark were other important voices. Rep. Patrick Murphy and Sen. Joe Lieberman simply refused to give up.
The "don't ask, don't tell" rule was first created in 1993. I was serving on the White House staff at the time and later became a special assistant and LGBT advisor to President Bill Clinton. The president, who supported fully open military service, was thwarted in that goal by then chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell (a Bush holdover) and Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Sam Nunn, who both strenuously opposed letting gays serve. The new rule was supposed to be a compromise of sorts - a midway point. Gays could serve, just not openly. It never turned out that way.
In the almost two decades since "don't ask, don't tell" was enacted, the world has changed dramatically. Our perceptions have changed. Our expectations are higher around issues of basic fairness, dignity, and respect, both as a result of sweeping changes in the culture and changes in our politics as well. It's hard to imagine a rule like "don't ask, don't tell" being made law today. Even President Clinton eventually denounced the law and he has since become a supporter of equal marriage rights.
Marriage equality takes center stage.
The key issue President Obama and other policymakers face now is gay marriage. In the civil rights community, it has become a litmus test of sorts on whether one supports full equality. As an Illinois state legislator, Mr. Obama favored marriage equality and a generally more expansive view of gay rights. But as he ran for higher office, his position became more cautious (he now favors civil unions), although he recently told blogger Joe Sudbay that "attitudes evolve, including mine."
While some policymakers still exist in both parties who think that support for marriage equality is too much to ask, positions on this issue are changing rapidly as the culture of the country progresses. Former Vice President Dick Cheney, former first lady Laura Bush, former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olsen, former party chair Ken Mehlman, and Cindy and Meghan McCain all form the core of Republican supporters of marriage equality.
With New York Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo pushing for marriage equality legislation in the state early this spring and the federal court about to confer it (again) in California, it may not be long before it is the norm for many citizens across the country because of momentum created outside Washington, including in Iowa and the Northeastern states. In fact, in addition to New York, pro-marriage governors were also elected this year in California, Maryland, Minnesota, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire.
Another important factor in the evolution of where we are today is the democratizing impact that "new media" and the Internet have had on the equality movement. Bloggers like John Aravosis, David Mixner, Pam Spaulding, Joe Sudbay and Andy Towle have been an invaluable resource, providing up-to-date, provocative information to the gay political community that it could not get elsewhere.
Partially as an outgrowth of all this information, new gay rights groups like Get Equal and Fight Back New York, formed just this year, were able to demonstrate that you could get results by being tough on friend and foe alike (a fact almost no one in Washington seems to get).
The struggle for marriage equality goes back to the late 1980s when groups like Lambda Legal and leaders like civil rights attorney Evan Wolfson (now head of the equality group Freedom to Marry), brought the original same-sex marriage case. Many, even those who were gay rights supporters then, thought they were asking too much. The truth is that they were visionaries.
Last year, following voter approval of the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 in California, another visionary, Chad Griffin, formed the American Foundation for Equal Rights. He hired two of the best lawyers in America, one of them the most respected conservative legal figure in the country, former Republican Solicitor General Ted Olson and Democratic legal superstar David Boies. Together, they have since won the most sweeping gay rights court ruling in history.
That ruling captured an historical imperative. Supporting full equal rights is no longer out of the political mainstream, nor should we let our elected officials fail to seize this moment in history to embrace the dignity of each and every human being. Anyone who misses the opportunity will undoubtedly find themselves on the wrong side of history.
And as the Democratic Party starts work on its new national party platform next year, it will have to face the issue head on, as will President Obama.
The challenges ahead.
Historically, some Democrats have believed in the faulty premise that voters who care about gay equality have no alternative but to support all Democrats. In fact, even within the Democratic Party there has always been a range of views, including some real champions (Howard Dean, for example, was the first significant political leader to support early civil unions) and some not.
Now we have even more options. In my home state of New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, another marriage equality supporter and a Republican-turned-Independent, has staked out many aggressively pro-gay positions.
The gay Log Cabin Republicans made an important contribution earlier this year when their long languishing federal court case become the first to significantly and broadly strike down "don't ask, don't tell."
Then comes the issue of money. Gay and lesbian donors to the Democratic Party are frustrated with the sometimes slow place of change. Moreover, gay rights have become significantly more important to progressive donors generally, who are directing their substantial resources toward those who support full equality, ignoring those who don't.
Washington-based gay rights groups have faced daunting challenges in the past two years. With friends in power, it often seems like change should come more easily. As a former White House official, I understand how that view is part of the Beltway culture. Additionally, whenever a new Democratic administration arrives, especially when it is preceded by a conservative one, progressives generally have long lists of items they all want done right away. The fact is, not everything can be first on the list. I understand that, too.
But equality groups have had another huge obstacle. They have had to try to be strategic sometimes without clear and consistent White House guidance. Let's face it: LGBT rights lobbyists were in the same position as many other progressive activists (for example, those for immigration and climate change) - they often had to make strategy decisions based on mixed signals from the administration.
Because President Obama lacked close relationships or long-standing political connections to gay rights leaders, he should have appointed a senior staff person to oversee policy formulation on equality issues across the government from the start.
During the early days of the new administration, in a Washington Post op-ed I urged President Obama to talk about equal rights with the passion he seemed to project during the campaign. That is exactly what he did following passage of the "don't ask, don't tell" bill this past weekend. When I read the president's statement I knew, again, that he was with us.
Now, even with an incoming Congress not fully in his corner, the president still has enormous power to fight ongoing discrimination through enforcement regulations and by instructing the Justice Department to fight for an expansion of rights rather than a contraction of them.
Going forward, we must continue to do battle against the cynical obstructionists of the right-wing apparatus and conservative movement who still try to exploit fear for their own partisan and anti-Obama political reasons. It's clear the right-wing wants to continue to have this fight through the upcoming presidential election and -- as candidate Bob Dole tried to do against Bill Clinton in 1996 with the issue of marriage -- use it as a wedge against Democrats and progressives.
At the same time, we should insist that President Obama show moral leadership on marriage equality by not only endorsing it now, but by using his considerable powers of persuasion to help all Americans understand why equality matters.


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Sunday, July 17, 2011
Upcoming Appearance: Jay Johnstone
The South Pasadena Public Library and The Friends of the South Public Library present a free author night with Jay Johnstone.
The program will focus on Johnstone's 20 year career and his three popular baseball books: "Temporary Insanity," Over the Edge," and "Some of My Best Friends Are Crazy".
Free drawing for door prizes.
Thursday, August 18, 2011 @ 7 p.m.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
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South Pasadena, CA
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Nice to meet you today. Check out my photoblog tomorrow for my rundown of the Reliquary event. I'll post it at midnight. And thanks again for all you do.
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NY Region
Food Pantries Grow on New York Campuses
Free Food Offered to Help Needy Students Stay in School
Lorn Grant (left) and Efrain Rivera, from the Food Bank For New York City, making a delivery to the Kingsborough Community College food pantry. Agaton Strom for The Wall Street Journal
Tucked on the fringes of Kingsborough Community College's campus in Brooklyn's Manhattan Beach, walled off from the corner of a computer lab, sits a small room about 10 feet square.
Inside isn't the usual jumble of printers, monitors and cables. Instead, the space houses neatly stacked food essentials—from tuna fish, pasta and peanut butter to juice, milk and canned fruits and vegetables.
The pantry offers free food to students attending classes at this large school—many of whom must make tough daily choices with meager resources.
"Being a student in need, it helps me get by," said Helen Berger, 31 years old, who studies in Kingsborough's mental-health program. "If I do have cash, I have to make sure I stretch that dollar."
Kingsborough's pantry, which existed in a lesser form before becoming part of the Food Bank For New York City's network in 2012, is one of a growing number of facilities aimed at addressing the quiet problem of hunger on campus.
Hattie Elmore, assistant coordinator of Kingsborough Community College's Single Stop program, stocking the shelves at the school's food pantry.
The City University of New York, which has operated food pantries at some of its community colleges in some form for the past few years, is working with the Food Bank to open 10 new ones this fiscal year at Medgar Evers College, John Jay College and other schools.
And the trend isn't just urban. Fifteen State University of New York schools have food pantries, including the Stony Brook campus on Long Island and the New Paltz campus in Ulster County. Three more are working with local groups to open one before the end of the year, according to a SUNY spokesman.
Few people associate college students with hunger, said Margarette Purvis, the president and chief executive of the Food Bank For New York City.
"We make light of it, saying things like 'I was hungry when I was in college, too!' " she said. "No one is thinking about hunger that could derail you—that could actually result in you having to remove yourself from school."
At Kingsborough, students can visit the pantry once weekly and take enough for three days of meals. Between 250 and 700 people visit each month, depending on the semester, including some non-students from the neighborhood, said Heidi Lopez, director of Kingsborough's Single Stop office, where students apply for public benefits and other free resources. During the last calendar year, there were 21,654 visits to the pantry.
The most popular pantry item is cereal. Ms. Lopez said she keeps bowls and spoons on hand for students who need to eat immediately. There are many, she said.
While many CUNY students attend college tuition-free, the cost of living in the region breaks most budgets, said Frank Sanchez, CUNY's vice chancellor for student affairs.
Pantries, which are funded mostly through grants and donations, help reduce out-of-pocket expenses so students can stay in school "instead of getting a second or third job or sometimes, dropping out of school, because they can't make ends meet," said Dr. Sanchez.
For Ms. Berger and her sister Zina, two Kingsborough students who live at home with their mother in Brooklyn, the pantry is a lifeline. For nearly four years, they have gone to the pantry to get staple items they would otherwise buy weekly at the grocery store.
"I always grab some ingredients for my mom for when she cooks and she's so grateful for them," said Zina Berger, 25, a speech pathology student.
The model of on-campus food pantries is growing across the country. Clare Cady, a co-founder of the College and University Food Bank Alliance, a national umbrella group, estimated there are some 150 to 200 campus pantries across the country.
Ms. Cady believes the number of pantries is multiplying because of growing awareness of the hunger problem. Financial-aid packages have decreased and the number of unemployed people returning to school has risen, she said, so more pantries are needed now. A 2014 survey conducted by the national hunger-relief group, Feeding America, found that a third of the families served through the Feeding America network of food banks make a choice between food and education.
Vivian Flowers stocking the shelves at the food pantry at Kingsborough Community College.
Plus, Ms. Cady added, "Families are not as supportive in sending children to school as they were even 10 years ago."
At the suburban campus of Stony Brook University, the food pantry serves about 15 to 20 students every night it is open, officials said.
At New Paltz, what began as a closet in 2012 expanded this spring to become a part of a regional food bank, run by the Student Christian Center in the college's student union building. In the two years it has been open, Chaplain Dianna Smith said, she has seen a 500% increase in the number of students she serves.
Randi Shubin Dresner, the president and chief executive of Island Harvest, a Long Island-based food bank, said there is an effort afoot to work with the state's food banks and SUNY colleges to open more campus pantries.
Last month, Ms. Dresner met with Carl McCall, chairman of the SUNY board of trustees, and other school leaders to discuss the issue of hunger on campus.
Mr. McCall said through his spokesman that SUNY is looking for ways to enhance the network of on- and off-campus pantries: "We understand that in order to get the most out of their education, students must have their most basic needs met."
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Mon, 01 October 2012 at 4:10 pm
Adele: 'Skyfall' Preview - Listen Now!
Adele's new song "Skyfall" from the upcoming James Bond flick of the same name won't be released until Thursday, but a preview of the song has been released!
The preview features a minute and a half of the 4:44 song from the 24-year-old British songstress. The next three days will hopefully go by quick so we can hear the rest!
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Head on over to iTunes to pre-order the song before its release date.
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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
Jake Owen has five new very loyal fans this week — Jenna, Lexi, Emily, Baby May and Miranda. They're the Central Jersey Allstars from the CMT series, Cheer . Produced by Kelly Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos, the show's first-season finale premieres Friday (Oct. 12) at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The finale centers around the teenagers competing at the World Cheerleading Championship, but a marathon of back-to-back episodes begins airing Saturday at 2 p.m. ET/PT. But there's always a little time for country music, right? So off they went to the opening night of Owen's CMT on Tour at the Best Buy Theater in New York City on Wednesday (Oct. 10). Prior to the concert, Owen got a little choked up when he talked about how it felt to see his name on the theater's marquee. "I was the opening opening act for Sugarland. Five years later, we sold this sucker out!"


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"The Knowing" Challenge
Dean Giles
The hum of the Integrator grew as my body slid into the encasement cubical, the sound echoing like a rasping hellhound.
I was securely strapped, lying on my back confined to the machine. Is there really any need for a blindfold?
The transition stage locked into place with a slight jolt and the humming died down, quickly replaced with a sloshing sound.
In the darkness my breathing was heavy and I fought hard to contain my panic. Will it discover my darkest secrets...? What if it hates me?
Could it kill me and take over my body, masquerading as me...? am I completely out of my mind?
Calm down, relax, you're okay. It'll be fine, just like the simulations.
The encasement fluid seeped through the guts of the Integrator, gurgling like a hungry predator. The solution must have a perfect balance or the Essence will die.
Silence. The silence was worse, triggering a primal fear. With no senses to anchor me to reality my mind created visions, visions of death.
Calm down Johnson, you know the drill... just relax.
The silence began to waver, replaced gradually by the sound of pressurised air. The hissing signified the first stage of transition where the Essence melded with the liquid. She was at her most vulnerable in gas form and couldn't survive for long.
The temperature dropped and the Essence's complex molecules began to slow as it condensed into a liquid - coalescence was imminent.
What if I'm too weak and can't accommodate the symbiont...
Think positive! We have their guarantees, and think of the benefits - the knowledge of a thousand cultures.
I imagined the churning solution just inches from my face and the Essence preparing for our joining in her own mysterious way. I heard the distinctive clunk of the heater engage. The liquid was heated and rapidly turned back to gas, and she was released.
I breathed in deeply, like they told me to, and the gas quickly filled my lungs. I tried to ignore the harsh odour, like sulphur, it tasted poisonous.
Will my mother recognise me? Will she still consider me her son...?
Of course she will! They explained the relationship, it's complementary – nothing is forced. You're on top of this... all in a day's work.
Rubbish! They're just using us for our bodies – we're just a tool to them...
Calm down and relax... remember why you agreed to this. It's an opportunity. I am an ambassador, I am history!
Wait, listen.
Quietly at first a deep groaning at the edge of my hearing grew into something else, a voice, a chanting that lingered for a moment too long, like a thousand suppressed screams converging into a horrific symphony. It grew and grew until it consumed my world.
A feeling of agoraphobia overcame me. New emotions entered my mind, thoughts and priorities that were utterly alien to me. I was touched by a mind that was vastly deeper than my own, yet rigidly narrower - it was like staring into the vast depths of a bottomless lake.
With much effort I focused my mind and anchored myself inwards, I concentrated on me, my individuality, I knew I had to or I would lose my mind to this thing.
Movement stirred deep within the chasm and gradually, the whole world seemed to shift. A bodiless face fabricated from the surroundings and rushed towards me. A million tiny fragments came together, endlessly shifting patterns converging to emulate her face.
The face was long, her jaw line pronounced giving the Essence a cold look of authority. Her expression was readable, well emulated.
She looked pained, and I felt the emotion as my own. Quickly it changed to anger. No, she was furious.
'How dare you deceive us?' she demanded, my senses danced on the knife edge of her rage.
I tried to recoil, to run, but she was always there following me through every avenue of my conscious mind.
'You cannot hide from me,' she screamed, millions of fragments shifting into flames of hair.
'Please... stop,' I managed. 'I don't understand.' Every inch of my being was ablaze with pain.
The Essence seemed to calm a little, the hideous face softening slightly against the pitch black encasement of my minds eye. 'I am the Essence Ellnica,' she said. 'Why have you tricked me?'
'Speak, human.'
My training had not anticipated a reaction this extreme, I felt utterly alone. 'I have not intentionally tricked you, Ellnica. Please, protocol did not prepare me for this. Why have you reacted this way?' Will she kill me?
No, think about this logically, she must have a reason for-
'Human, you claim to be a uni-existent being, yet I enter a body that is already complete. There is no place here for my kind. Why did you keep this from us?'
'You're mistaken-'
'Do not mock me, Human. I can see your thoughts. I can see that you are already joined.'
'No, you're wrong.'
'Then who is it that you commune with, man?' she said. 'Who is this other that you rebound your fears against?'
It took me a moment to understand what the Essence meant, but how to explain... 'This is how we think – it is only I.'
'Human, I can see the symbiont in residence. You are mistaken if you think this is a natural part of you.' The Essence's collective face changed, its expression became soft, wise even.
I felt her penetrate my memories, searching for the truth. I had nothing to hide and opened my mind to her.
'Perhaps, human, it is your kind that has been tricked.'
Sympathy crossed her face as she accepted my ignorance. 'I must leave,' she said. 'We cannot be three.'
The End